Objective
The PEPSI project (Protocols Enabling Protection and Security of Information) aims at studying and developing new protocols for the protection and security of information, and the corresponding theoretical tools necessary for describing and reasoning about them.
Security, integrity and privacy of data are key requirements for the development of the knowledge society, as stated by the European Commission in the IST-FP6 Work Programme. In the past twenty years the cross-fertilisation between Quantum Physics and Computer Science, the so-called Quantum Information Science (QIS), has produced many remarkable advances which often solved tasks for which no classical solution was deemed feasible (e.g. perfectly secure cryptography codes, efficient factorisation of integers).
However, the applicability area of QIS still remains largely unexplored, and the theoretical tools developed so far to explore QIS applications look rather in their infancy and do not seem to reflect the recent progresses of Computer Science.
The project aims in particular at:
- further exploring the capabilities and applications of QIS for building quantum communication protocols, in particular for the security and protection of information;
- developing techniques for rigorously proving correctness s and security of quantum communication protocols, by extending existing Computer Science techniques to cope with the quantum case. Both objectives are relevant to the EU policies.
Objective 1 addresses the 'solving trust and confidence' issue of the IST Thematic Priority by investigating methods for improving the security and protection of information: the possible applications include user authentication and voting (with further impact on eGovernment implementation, another issue of the IST Priority and the eEurope activity).
Objective 2 might contribute to reducing the 'persistent cultural gap between computer scientists and physicists' and foster collaboration.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software
- natural sciences computer and information sciences computer security access control
- natural sciences physical sciences quantum physics
- natural sciences computer and information sciences computer security cryptography
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering computer hardware quantum computers
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Keywords
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Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Programme(s)
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Topic(s)
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Call for proposal
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FP6-2002-MOBILITY-6
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Funding Scheme
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OIF - Marie Curie actions-Outgoing International Fellowships
Coordinator
OXFORD
United Kingdom
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